Roller-bearing.



E." MEIER.

ROLLER BEARING.

' APPLICATION FILED APR.9| 191s.

Patented May 6', 1919.

nnmne MEIER, or onms'rrmre, mew.

nontmiannnme.

To a]! whom'ifmag concern.-

Be it known that I, ERLING a sub residing at 1 Kingdom of; Norway, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Roller-Bearings; and I do; hereby-declare the following tube a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

ject of the King of Norway, Christiania, in the such as will enable-others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and 'use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to letters .or figures of. re erence marked thereon, which form a.

part of this specification.

The present invention has for its object a roller bearing of. the kind in which rollers are provided with grooves or shoulders for preventing axial movement of the same.;-. Accordmg to the invention one or more 'of' the bearln members are composed of rlngs a number runnlng 11] the rollers.

which project in front, of the ace and fit into the grooves of On the drawing is illustrated aform of Y the invention.

Figure 1 is an axial section through, a roller bearing and Fig. 2 is airadial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

' Fig. 3 is-a sectional detail on a larger scale showing a modified bearing.

The rollers 1 are 2, and the bearing members are composed of rings 3, 4:, 5, 6, 'etc., some of which, such as 6, project in front of the others and fit into the grooves 2 of roller 1.

Said rings 6, as seen on Fig.2, are slotted may be slipped on to the rollers, when the bearing is assembled. The. rings 7 so that they Specification of Letters Patent: Application filed April 9, 1918. Serial H0; 227,531.

form, of the roller v 'whereby provided with grooves Patented May 6, 1919.

composing ach bearing member may", suit ably be pressed into steel jackets 7-, tokeep the parts together..' v

the inner member may be solid, and the other one composed of rings as illustrated;

In assembling the bearing the rollers are first placedtin or around the finished bearslotted rings are slipped on from both sides. Finally the-outer rings are put in position and the steel jacket is pressed on.

As sh rollers and bearing rings which have to take up the axial stresses 'are both given a convex form, so that they only touch each other in one point. I i In the form of the bearing illustrated on Fig. 3-ro1ler l is not provided-with grooves but only with a shoulder at each end, In thiscase rings 6 may be made whole. I claim: I

One of the bearing members for instance ing member; thereupon the middle part of the other bearlng is put in position and. the

own on .Fig. 3the edges (8, 9) on In a roller the combination with groovedor shouldered rollersfof bearing members composed of-rlngs, one or more of which projects in front of the bearing surface and fits into the grooves of the rollers, the cooperating edges of rollers and projectlng bearing rings being given a convex form,

they only touch y .In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my inventioml have signed my name in "presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERLING MEIER. Witnesses:

Cpflonimn',

\C. FABRro'Ios HANSEN.

each other one 

